Wednesday, December 16, 2009

By this point, we have seen all of the DCAAPB prints. Here is all of the other art work shown at Gallery 1988 last night. I'm going to try to go back tomorrow, when it is a little less crowded, and get some better pictures, plus the names, prices, and availability of all the art.

I just caught up on all the massive posts from last night. Tried to follow along with the live feeds, nodding all the while...I was just in awe! Thanks to LT and Rev for the coverage and thanks to Zort and all of you! I couldn't be there but you made me feel a part of it and that means so much to me. I LOVE the art! xxoo

Nicole. One side of the story only. We shouldn't be judging anyone or drawing conclusions. If any individuals have a problem it's way best that they sort out their differences themselves rather than her. MHO.

Right, Ellen!A big shout to Lotto and Milo for their performance, live streaming from their iPhones was darn amazing. Lotto filming Damon till her battery gave out and Milo running up and down the line in his Dharma apparel making them shout the name of Michaels son are part of Lostarg history already!

I've been swamped with work for the end of year and MIA the last two weeks but I really enjoy you all. Last night was so fun to watch. Thanks again Rev and LT. Can't wait for that poster today. Also hoping the Locke tshirts ho on sale too at some point today too.

@Tibbs - if it is 11:52 PST like a lot of people think, it's going to be 7:52 a.m. tomorrow morning for us UKers! It's crazy.

i get the feeling this one will be a weird timed one, no matter when they do it. At least we know there'll only be the same amount of people as there has been for the last four prints, thanks to no new people being able to register.

I'm pretty sure there are two statues on the island now, one being Sobek and the other Tawaret. This pretty much confirms it. Look how Sobeks legs a far apart, and then look at the statue seen in 'LaFleur'.

Man up?! This is about self preservation Thors! If I get any grumpier I'm going to find myself without a job and without girlfriend :)

Had a nightmare this morning, had an hour to get ready for work ended up burning porridge, forgetting to clean teeth, was late for work, called a colleague a four letter word. So much cool stuff to catch up on, I was sat watching one of Rev's streams when I realised I was already five minutes late!

theres something really interesting about the dark man who talked to jacob painting... if you look in the background right above his left elbow you see a drawing of a sphinx. whats so interesting about this is the fact that there is an easter egg in the blu-ray/dvd of season five of someone drawing this!!

this drawing doesnt really have any other significance yet it is in this painting. i wonder if that is a hint towards season 6? i mean unless i missed something in previous seasons... but how did the artist know about this?

let me know if i blanked on a detail OR if i have discovered something amazing!

ok i feel dumb. i found the link to season five. regardless it is interesting that a small detail from episode seven from season five is part of the MIB's office. i wonder if this sphinx will mean anything next season.

I love how Dan Lydersen seemed to capture the full scope of Lost. Awesome. This ARG is truly a fan pleaser.Great to see so many of you Argernauts in the photos.Maven,and friends; You may be in the season 6 DVD's. How cool is that?

With regard to the MIB painting - the white shoe on the right is that a ref to Christian? It's so good. The compass, the checkerboard pieces, charlie's greatest hits and locke's note. There's so much to the painting. It's almost like our very own Linder Gallery.

Well that's about as much work as I can do today... Heading home to await someone, somewhere figuring out what time this is going to happen. Oh, and it would be good if it could not be in the next hour!

what happens when this is done Tim ?? we all cry in a corner over the one's we missed and the show we missed. Then we get ready for LOST to start on Feb 2nd.

@ Chris, kewl that you got snow today. Snow ball fight, splat !

@Bill, no way to sign into GoMerch anymore. the link is dead. If you don't have a account and password, probably out of luck :-(Just keep that f5 button highlighted and at the ready and that's all you can do.

Oh and I have to say I had alot of fun in chat last night. Rev is walking around with his camera and people are yelling in chat... get me a t-shirt, I'll give you money, Hey turn around and go back Rev, I missed that painting, turn left rev, no other way rev. I just started asking him to dance and stand on his head. lolol Here he is filming it and people want him to stop and buy them something with his money lol too funny

@Lisa Thanks for the info. I do have a login/password but wasn't sure if there was a way to login early or not. I might not even get a chance to order this, depending on what time it becomes available (stuck at work) :(

Jesse t, what I'm hoping is that there will be the limited edition of signed ones (as in the past) and another unsigned one like they gave out at the gallery last night. Many more of the latter, hopefully.

Good morning all! Had a blast watching the feeds last night - thanks so much Rev and LT for providing! Do we have any idea if people were able to buy any art at the gallery? I know Rev was trying, just not sure if he was successful. If not, any ideas when it will go on sale? As if I can afford it. There was sooo much I loved! The smoke monster in a suit riding the polar bear cracked me up. :)

from what we are guessing, it's midnight tonight? is that correct? which makes it 8AM UK time. Which is nice. I severely doubt I'll get one, but I'd love the chance. Then it's on to begging artists to open up a run of some of the posters. I hope this site stays up into the new year, so that if people hear of the prints being offered, we have a place to tell people.

Wow, I was out of town for 2 weeks with limited web access, just dying to come back and the surprises for the last 24 hours have been simply amazing!! A BIG THANK YOU to all that were present and provided a truly excellent glimpse into the gallery event. The art is simply awesome and here is my updated letter to Santa Claus this year:

Dear Santa,

I have been a good Lostie all this year, watched every Season 5 episode on TV and didn't change the channel until it was over, I tried to buy every single poster from the ARG, had to get a couple of spare F5 keys, have been posting nice comments to all the fellow Losties on lostargs.com and generally have a healthy but borderline psychotic obsession with all things LOST. I think I deserve (we all deserve) that TPTB offer a beautiful, large full color book with all the fine art presented at the gallery, together with a set of all 16 posters for about, mmhh, oh $200, that's my ONLY wish this Xmas Santa, pretty please!!

Yeah I'm pretty much giving up on this one now as well. About to get some sleep down here in Adelaide and then off to work. If I knew when it was going to drop I might have a chance to make plans around it but at this point it looks as though I'll just miss out. Good luck to everyone around for it! And good night.

Not Poster related:SFTV critic Rick Norwood just wrote on sfsite.com:Time magazine picked Battlestar Galactica as one of the ten best television series of 2009, and the Dollhouse episode "Briar Rose" as one of the best episodes. About ten million people tuned into the beginning of V and FlashForward, and last year to the beginning of Terminator and Fringe, a year or two before that to the beginning of Heroes. Those are substantial numbers these days. But for all of these shows, the numbers fell off rapidly. There are a lot of people who want to watch good science fiction, but television isn't giving them what they want.

I think there are two problems. One is that the shows are too complicated. Lost got it right -- first appealing, memorable characters. Complications later. The other is that the shows are too grim. In bad times, people want Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, not millions dead or hopelessly powerful aliens.

well, I'm working on the assumption that "11:52" isn't correct, as has been said by others. I don't know how that time was reached, but I think it was by adding up times on the bookmarks. If a couple were missing (from people wandering home) then I'm guessing closest hour wins. So midnight PST / 8AM my time. Total guesswork though, and very probably wrong.

I'm way behind on the posts, and please forgive me if I'm "bringing up the past"...but I just wanted to voice my opinion on the "cutting in line" incident. (Feel free to skip if you're tired of the issue.)

I'm very disappointed in Lotto and the others involved. Sure, we all want LOST stuff. But, what's fair is fair. Chaseter, sorry that happened to you man. You said it, karma is a bitch. And while Lotto, Comixguru and MIB may be nice people, they did not do a nice thing.

feel_the_insanity, Zort suggested earlier that, as we, none of us, know the whole story, it may best if we leave it to the individuals involved to settle their differences between them. Which seems fair enough.

Ellen, the folks in the queue were given bookmarks with numbers on which gave the clue to the buy time. See LOSTARGS home page. unfortunately it appears one or more is missing and so the clue is useless.

yeah, just counting up the numbers. I have a theory as to when it's going to drop, I just don't know if I should share it! especially as I'm going to be out when it does, if my calculations are correct. And no, I can't get out of it.

dylansdad, remember though that there has been no way for new registrations for a few weeks now. There'll only be the same number of people physically able to get in there and buy as there has been for the last couple.

I wish Eko had his stick in the poster instead of that axe, I wish Shannon and Sayid weren't in there twice, and I wish that some combination of the freighter/Naomi/Lapidus/Miles/Charlotte/Keamy were in there somewhere. Ana-Lucia is less deserving than the freighter folk, and had less of an impact on the plot. I would also have liked to have seen Widmore, Eloise, Rousseau, Alex, Mikhail, Tom and Richard. (Or at least a more obvious Richard.)

But those other 4,815,162,342 people probably don't realize they have no chance without an existing account and will storm the site anyway, causing the server to catch on fire, which is housed in the same building as all the poster tubes. The whole thing will go down in ankh-shaped flames.

Thanks so so much to Rev and Lottery Ticket for going out of their way to do the live feed. All of us in Rev's chat on UStream really felt like we were there (minus the crowds, pushing people, free poster an ability to buy things! :( ). We really had a good time and we're glad you all did too. We loved the shout-outs and the WAAALLTs. You really went the extra mile for us, so thanks so much!

Onto my favorites,

I love the Dan Lydersen one so much because it just has so much in it. I just want to stare at it for hours.

But i also love the one of Darlton combing the smoke monsters hair lol.

I have contacted a couple of the artists. At least one, featured on the front page, has confirmed that prints of their picture will be available in the coming weeks, and to just keep checking their website. This is exciting news...

JTAll those site have known about the print releases for awhile, so I don't think we're going to get to many more people trying for them. I hope. Plus like ChrisL said you haven't been able to register for awhile. But I do get how you feel, it's going to be a 404 day.

dylansdadI like that there's 2 Sayids in the print. :) Eko with the stick probably would have been better. I would mind Daniel in the print. I would like to see Frank since he was suppose to be the original pilot (and might be a candidate.A better picture of Richard would be nice too. I thought it was Jack when he came out of the jungle onto the crash scene.

art work that was exclusive to the show. I started looking at the sites for some of the artists, dropped a few emails saying how much I liked the work, but was stuck in the UK so not able to get any. One has emailed back saying they will "most probably" be doing prints, and to check back in a couple of weeks.

Ben- prints of the paintings would be great- unless we have to get them the same way as the posters-f5, f5, f5 ....

I didn't think too much about the small series of square pictures last night (artist? watercolors?)- but looking now I see each one s a pivotal moment or the character facing it's "issue", and they're a bit funny too. Now I like them a lot.